TY - JOUR
T1 - How to optimize critical care resources in surgical patients: intensive care without physical borders
AU - Pelosi, Paolo
AU - Ball, Lorenzo
AU - Schultz, Marcus J.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Timely identification of surgery patients at risk of postoperative complications is important to improve the care process, including critical care. This review discusses epidemiology and impact of postoperative complications; prediction scores used to identify surgical patients at risk of complications, and the role of critical care in the postoperative management. It also discusses how critical care may change, with respect to admission to the ICU.
AB - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Timely identification of surgery patients at risk of postoperative complications is important to improve the care process, including critical care. This review discusses epidemiology and impact of postoperative complications; prediction scores used to identify surgical patients at risk of complications, and the role of critical care in the postoperative management. It also discusses how critical care may change, with respect to admission to the ICU.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85055808321&origin=inward
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30299312
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1097/MCC.0000000000000557
DO - https://doi.org/10.1097/MCC.0000000000000557
M3 - Article
C2 - 30299312
SN - 1070-5295
VL - 24
SP - 581
EP - 587
JO - Current Opinion in Critical Care
JF - Current Opinion in Critical Care
IS - 6
ER -